PDFtk Builder (v. 2.35) is another GUI -- and I think an excellent one -- for use with PDFtk's command line pdf tools.

The program file (and, optionally, a small help file) should be extracted from the zip volume into the same directory as PDFtk.exe. To run the program, just double click on PdftkBuilder.exe.

I did not find any registry or user directory writes from running the program.

The uncompressed executable is 508kb, and it includes an optional help file that is an additional 19kb (but you probably won't need that). The executable can be UPX-compressed to 201kb without any loss of functionality -- but I don't think Andrew reports compressed sizes, only uncompressed sizes, in the database.

I much prefer PDFtk Builder to GUI for PDFtk (1MB), which is also in the database, as PDFtk Builder is much smaller and I find it to be more functional (for example, in reordering pages within a pdf file or creating a new file from selected pages of multiple source pdf files). For comparison, see the database entry for GUI for PDFtk at http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=17#post.

Actually, I have written my own interactive batch files to use with PDFtk and I think they work better than any of the GUI's -- but Andrew doesn't allow batch files in the database. My batch files are, of course, tiny (about 2kb).

The uncompressed size of PDFtk Builder is 508kb for the executable and 19kb for the help file -- not 2MB as posted in the database. That's a huge difference for folks who use USB sticks and need the smallest programs possible. It also might lead folks to choose "GUI for PDFtk" (1MB), thinking it is half the size -- when, in fact, it is twice the size of PDFtk Builder.

The setup file for PDFtk Builder is 2MB, but that is largely because of the useless installer bloat. I recommended the zip file, which is only 310kb and which includes files that decompress to only 527kb total.

Andrew Lee wrote:The total size includes pdftk.exe, which is a hefty 1.4MB, without which the frontend won't function.

Note that the total size for GUI for PDFTK also includes pdftk.exe

I stand corrected.

I deleted GUI for PDFtk as soon as I found PDFtk Builder, so I did not realize you were including the pdftk.exe in the computations. What you're doing certainly makes sense, but I just didn't know you were doing it.

I'm unsure why the author isn't bundling the latest version. Licensing isn't an issue as it is GPL. Not the pdftk Windows front end, the pdftk Server command line tool that PDFTK Builder bundles. I tried replacing with the current version and doing a join as a test and it worked without issue. Split also works. Rotate fails as the command line parameters have changed.

UPDATE: It compiles on Delphi XE2 with a couple syntax updates. And you can get rotate working by changing 3 lines of code.